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2025 Queensland Health Steps Challenge

Monday 4th August to Sunday 14th September 2025

Every step counts.

Supporting health workers to increase their awareness and levels of physical activity.

What is the Queensland Health Step Challenge (QHSC)? 

Building on the success of the 2024 Challenge, 10,000 Steps has partnered with Health and Wellbeing Queensland to deliver another state-wide 10,000 Steps Challenge from Monday 4th August to Sunday 14th September 2025. 10,000 Steps is a successful initiative developed by CQUniversity and funded by the Queensland Government through Health and Wellbeing Queensland to support more people to increase their awareness and levels of physical activity.


This Challenge is a fun, engaging opportunity to support Queensland HHS’s and Health Agencies to increase staff connection and participation in physical activity to benefit physical and mental wellbeing.

How does the QHSC work?

To participate in the QHSC you will need to create a free account to access the 10,000 Steps platform on the web or the app on your apple or android device. If you already have an account, you will be able to use it to join the QHSC.

As soon as you have an account you can start logging your activity and sign up for a team in the QHSC for your activity to contribute. There is a Step by Step guide below.

None of your individual measures can be viewed by other participants. Only the totals of all participants are shown.

How do I participate?

Queensland Health recognises the different abilities of its diverse staff and encourages everyone to participate in the Challenge at a level that is appropriate for them.

Any form of activity you engage in, from walking or swimming to sports or lifting weights (and everything between), can contribute to your “steps” counted and help you and your team succeed. If you have any existing health conditions, please consult your GP.

Set-up Steps

Join a Team!

  • For your activity to count towards the QHSC, you need to be a part of Team. You can start by joining onto your HHS Challenge team below.
  • From there you can sign on as Team Captain by contacting your HHS or Organisation's Coordinators.
  • Alternatively, a captain can invite your to join their team via handy invite link.
  • Your activity and steps accrued in any Tournaments also count towards your Health Challenge Team!
Total Steps
396,340,376
Total Participants
2,567
Total Tournaments
23

Leaderboard

To encourage healthy competition between the participating institutions, the leaderboard will keep track of how many steps each team has accumulated so far.

This leaderboard will update each teams progress from the start of the QHSC on 4th August until the 14th September 2025.

Note: The average steps are calculated by dividing the total number of team steps / number of team members. 

Challenge Team Leaderboard

Rank Name Total Steps Average Steps
1
North West HHS
  • Participants: 5
901,559 300,519
2
Gold Coast HHS
  • Participants: 352
  • Tournaments: 2
68,655,680 206,173
3
Department of Health
  • Participants: 411
  • Tournaments: 5
72,719,420 191,871
4
Queensland Ambulance Service
  • Participants: 2
376,915 188,457
5
South West HHS
  • Participants: 15
2,050,014 186,364
6
Cairns and Hinterland HHS
  • Participants: 358
  • Tournaments: 1
55,338,655 185,700
7
Health Agencies
  • Participants: 60
  • Tournaments: 2
8,346,442 177,583
8
Mackay HHS
  • Participants: 87
  • Tournaments: 1
14,546,396 177,395
9
Children's Health Queensland HHS
  • Participants: 327
  • Tournaments: 1
53,507,393 174,860
10
Central West HHS
  • Participants: 142
  • Tournaments: 1
21,066,664 169,892
11
Sunshine Coast HHS
  • Participants: 191
  • Tournaments: 1
27,132,779 163,450
12
Torres and Cape HHS
  • Participants: 116
  • Tournaments: 1
17,241,507 161,135
13
Townsville HHS
  • Participants: 19
1,592,089 159,208
14
Metro South HHS
  • Participants: 119
  • Tournaments: 4
14,981,828 157,703
15
Darling Downs HHS
  • Participants: 172
  • Tournaments: 2
16,763,107 138,538
16
Central Queensland HHS
  • Participants: 54
  • Tournaments: 1
6,583,879 137,164
17
Metro North HHS
  • Participants: 87
9,547,994 130,794
18
West Moreton HHS
  • Participants: 37
  • Tournaments: 1
4,170,686 126,384
19
Wide Bay HHS
  • Participants: 13
817,369 102,171

Choose your challenge team

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Department of Health
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Townsville HHS
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Metro North HHS
Metro South HHS_picker
Metro South HHS
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Darling Downs HHS
Cairns HHS_picker
Cairns and Hinterland HHS
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Children's Health Queensland HHS
Gold Coast HHS_picker
Gold Coast HHS
Wide Bay HHS_picker
Wide Bay HHS
Torres HHS_picker
Torres and Cape HHS
Mackay HHS_picker
Mackay HHS
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Central Queensland HHS
West Moreton HHS_picker
West Moreton HHS
Central West HHS_picker
Central West HHS
North West HHS_picker
North West HHS
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Queensland Ambulance Service
South West HHS_picker
South West HHS
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Health Agencies
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Sunshine Coast HHS

Connect and Share!

Join the QHSC Community on viva engage to stay connected and have a place to share photos, tips or recruit team mates.

Share your photos with us on Instagram and Facebook and let us know about your progress by using the Challenge hashtags  #10000steps #qhsc #Everystepcounts #Everymovecounts

You can also tag us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Promotional Resources

Download the printable poster below for your workplace to spread the word on the Queensland Health Steps Challenge.

QHSC A4 - Call to Action Poster
Use this A4 QHSC Call to Action Poster to encourage participants to step up to the Challenge.

More Information

If you need more information, please contact us.